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     <ul class="menu clearfix"><li class="first last expanded active-trail"><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project" title="" class="active-trail active">Project</a><ul class="menu clearfix"><li class="first leaf"><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Cloning" title="">Cloning</a></li>
     <ul class="menu clearfix"><li class="first last expanded active-trail"><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project" title="" class="active-trail active">Project</a><ul class="menu clearfix"><li class="first leaf"><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Cloning" title="">Cloning</a></li>
<li class="leaf"><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Transforming" title="We transformed stuff.">Transforming</a></li>
<li class="leaf"><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Transforming" title="We transformed stuff.">Transforming</a></li>
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<li class="leaf"><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Characterization" title="">Characterizing</a></li>
<li class="leaf"><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Growing" title="">Growing</a></li>
<li class="leaf"><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Growing" title="">Growing</a></li>
<li class="leaf"><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Designing" title="">Designing</a></li>
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     <center><img style="border: solid black 1px; margin-bottom: 20px;" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8317/8045909224_6b5012bcd4_c.jpg" width=683 /></center><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>GenSeat began as a vision; a vision of fully formed seats and chairs emerging from giant vats of colorful bioengineered bacterial cellulose.  Acetobacter naturally produces mats of cellulose that can be used for a variety of purposes. We wanted to create a broader spectrum of materials, so we altered the properties of the cellulose mats by engineering Acetobacter to express enzymes that synthesize N-acetyl glucosamine, a subunit of chitin. The result is a chitin-cellulose copolymer with unique properties. We have also engineered colors into the mats, and demonstrated their use in modern architectural design.</p>
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     <center><img style="border: solid black 1px; margin-bottom: 20px;" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8038/8046110823_41af45f8c9_c.jpg" width=683 /></center><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Gen2Seat began as a vision; a vision of fully formed seats and chairs emerging from giant vats of colorful bioengineered bacterial cellulose.  Acetobacter naturally produces mats of cellulose that can be used for a variety of purposes. We wanted to create a broader spectrum of materials, so we altered the properties of the cellulose mats by engineering Acetobacter to express enzymes that charge N-acetyl glucosamine, a subunit of chitin, with UDP which facilitates its uptake by cellulose synthetase. The result is a chitin-cellulose copolymer which may have unique properties. We have demonstrated its potential for use in modern architectural design, and plan to engineer other properties such as color, scent, etc. into the celluose as next steps.</p>
<h2><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Cloning">Cloning</a></h2>
<h2><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Cloning">Cloning</a></h2>
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<p><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Cloning"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8171/8045977601_2d3a8ec6b5_m.jpg" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px" /></a>Learn about our cloning techniques, primer designs, transformation protocols, and exciting adventures along the way.</p>
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<p><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Cloning"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8171/8045977601_2d3a8ec6b5_m.jpg" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px" class="border" /></a>Learn about our cloning techniques, primer designs, protocols, and exciting adventures along the way.</p>
<h2 style="clear: both"><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Transforming">Transforming</a></h2>
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<p><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Transforming"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8286/7864391816_63603f11a3_m.jpg" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px" /></a>Learn about our cloning techniques, primer designs, transformation protocols, and exciting adventures along the way.</p>
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<p><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Transforming"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8286/7864391816_63603f11a3_m.jpg" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px" class="border" /></a>Learn about the protocols we used to insert engineered DNA into bacterial cells and observe its affects.</p>
<h2 style="clear: both"><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Growing">Growing</a></h2>
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<p><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Growing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8174/8046009703_a23215d3ae_m.jpg" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px" /></a>See how we learned to grow cellulose in Kombucha tea, and produced sheeting on a large scale.</p>
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<p><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Growing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8174/8046009703_a23215d3ae_m.jpg" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px" class="border" /></a>See how we learned to grow cellulose in Kombucha tea, and produced sheeting on a large scale.</p>
<h2 style="clear: both"><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Designing">Designing</a></h2>
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<p><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Designing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8309/8046067033_6faa090603_m.jpg" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px" /></a>Creating functional furniture out of completely organic materials takes creativity, flare, and a lot of awesome tools.</p>
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<p><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Designing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8309/8046067033_6faa090603_m.jpg" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px" class="border" /></a>Creating functional furniture out of completely organic materials takes creativity, flare, and a lot of awesome tools.  See the conception of a bio-composite chair design and the novel fabrication methods necessary to produce it.</p>
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<p><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Socializing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8451/8046060553_ec99ecffc9_m.jpg" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px" /></a>Our human practices involved a 200+ response national survey on genetic engineering and a pop-up shop selling synthetic biology products at the Atlantic Antic street fair in Brooklyn, NY!</p>
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<p><a href="/Team:NYU_Gallatin/Project/Socializing"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8451/8046060553_ec99ecffc9_m.jpg" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px" class="border" /></a>Our human practices involved a 200+ response national survey on genetic engineering and a pop-up shop selling synthetic biology products at the Atlantic Antic street fair in Brooklyn, NY!</p>
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